The name was then sissified as LittleLord Fauntleroy, the long-haired, velvet-suited and lace-collared boy hero of the FrancesHodgsonBurnett book, who became an unwitting symbol of the pampered mama's boy.

"Don't try to be modern, it's the most old-fashioned thing there is," - Attilio, The Tiger and the Snow

@augusta is correct-- I should not have borrowed her word 'oppressed.' It was sloppy. It implies historical reality rather than the social prejudices I was attempting to discuss. I borrowed in an attempt to illustrate a fallacy but in doing so went down a totally false road. She was right to call bullshit on it.